With a 12-point lead on the high of the Premier League and solely 9 matches remaining, Liverpool are in a commanding place to finish the job and dethrone Manchester Metropolis as champions over the subsequent couple of months.
Nevertheless, after the double disappointment of Champions League elimination and Carabao Cup remaining woe towards Paris Saint-Germain and Newcastle respectively, with the Reds shedding successive video games for the primary time this season, Arne Slot’s facet will reconvene on the finish of March with some extent to show.
As if the prospect of profitable a twentieth league title and answering some rising doubts which have emerged over the previous week isn’t motivation sufficient, our subsequent fixture is a Merseyside derby…and the final one in February was tempestuous, to say the least.
Collymore: Liverpool have to ‘buck up’ in April
In his newest column for CaughtOffside, Stan Collymore acknowledged his perception that Liverpool received’t give up their place on the Premier League summit, however he additionally warned that the Reds want to enhance on current performances in the event that they’re to forestall any pointless jitters within the run-in to the season.
The previous LFC striker wrote: “Any fan initially of the season would have mentioned that the Premier League is a very powerful competitors for Liverpool – and whereas they may collapse and miss out on profitable it, I actually don’t suppose that may occur, even when they should buck up their concepts as their performances in current weeks have been poor.”
Liverpool have been reeling, however ought to nonetheless see the job by way of from right here
Collymore is correct to warn Liverpool that the job isn’t finished but and that their current shows go away huge room for enchancment.
The Reds have been second finest over the 2 legs towards PSG and didn’t flip up for a lot of the Carabao Cup remaining. Even of their final Premier League match, they wanted the shock of a Will Smallbone aim to jolt them into life and retrieve a half-time deficit at residence to a Southampton facet who’ve earned 9 factors since August.
If there’s a silver lining to being eradicated from each knockout competitors at this stage of the marketing campaign, it’s that Slot and his gamers can focus all of their efforts on seeing out the title race. After the Merseyside derby on 2 April, we now have no extra midweek matches for the remainder of the season.
In idea, that ought to present some respite for Liverpool after a relentless run of 30 matches in 4 months because the November worldwide break, and the frustration of the previous 10 days ought to have the squad all of the extra decided to silence anybody who’s suggesting that they may but throw away their 12-point lead.
As Collymore says, the Premier League is the one trophy which implies essentially the most to many Reds supporters; and if we see Virgil van Dijk elevating it aloft in Might, the frustration of lacking out in each different match will properly and actually subside.
